As an HIM Data Quality Analyst, you know that information interoperability enables the movement of electronic health information to where and when it is needed to support individual healthcare needs and population-oriented uses. Select a population-oriented use such as disaster management, bioterrorism surveillance, and community healthcare tracking that would be useful for a large, county hospital system and create a data project plan that justifies data integrity as a key strategic resource and mission tool.

 

Create a data project plan for a large, county hospital system. In your data project plan, justify data integrity as a key strategic resource and mission tool in a 4–5 page document. You can accomplish this by: (1) Selecting a population-oriented use for electronic data (examples: disaster management, bioterrorism surveillance, community healthcare tracking); (2) Advocating how information interoperability and information exchange can be efficiently achieved; and (3) Demonstrating how data stewardship can be accomplished using secondary databases and population databases. (4) Analyze and recommend data architectural models for the enterprise such as clinical data, financial data, and administrative data.

 

Your assignment should include:

 

Selection of a population-oriented use for electronic data

Definition and discussion of data integrity and documentation integrity

Discussion on HIE

Discussion on how information interoperability and information exchange could be efficiently achieved

Definition and discussion on data governance and stewardship

Demonstration on how data stewardship can be accomplished using secondary

databases and population databases

 

Illustrates how you would meet the above objectives and incorporate at least five (5) of the HITECH Act focus areas:

o Improving healthcare quality, reducing medical errors, reducing health disparities, and advancing delivery of patient-centered medical care.

 

o Reducing healthcare costs resulting from inefficiency, medical errors, inappropriate care, duplicative care, and incomplete information.

 

o Providing appropriate information to help guide medical decisions at the time and place of care.

 

o Ensuring that meaningful public input is included in development of such infrastructure.

 

o Improving the coordination of care and information among hospitals, laboratories, physician offices, and other entities for the secure and authorized exchange of healthcare information.

 

o Improving public health activities and facilitating the early identification and rapid response to public health threats.

 

o Facilitating health and clinical research and healthcare quality.

 

o Promoting early detection, prevention, and management of chronic diseases.

 

o Promoting a more effective marketplace, increased consumer choice, and improved outcomes in healthcare services; and

 

o Improving efforts to reduce health disparities.